Improvement in scythe-snaths



INITED STATES DEXTER PIERCE, OF MONTAGUE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SCYTHE-SNATHS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1114, dated March 11,1837.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DEXTER PIERCE, of Montague, in the county ofFranklin and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in the Article of a Scythe- Snath; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full and exact description.

The nature of my invention consists in constructing all the irons'andthe nib or thole woods so as to manufacture from less amount of materialand labor,with more ease, couvenience, facility, and system than that ofany other method to me known, thereby enabling the manufacturer toproduce the article at a moderate expense, of great durability,convenient inA transportation, and in every way suited to convenience inuse.

The following refers more particularly to the drawings appel-taining tothis specifica-tion,

' thereby setting forth my form, manner, and

front, and Fig. 5 a side,view of the same,) made,

of ironor other metal, and of equal Width and thickness, or otherwise,as convenience may require, bent or turned at a, welded, swaged, andthreaded at f for the reception of the nut c, opened and swaged at theorifice e for the reception of the snead.

Letter d is the nib or thole wood, concave at e, Fig. 2, so as to leavea bearing of some considerable extent upon the surface of the snead, andperforated at the concave end with a bit, leaving the orifice ofdiameter and depth sufcient to receive the collar b, Figs. 4 and 5, andthence of less diameter quite through, as at C, Fig. 2, thereby makingit convenient in all to fasten the nib or thole woods in any situationdesirable on the snead.

Letter B is the ring for fastening the scythe to the snath.

Letter A, Fig. 3, represents my improved method of bushing and securingthat part of the spotting which secures the innermost part of the shankof the scythe, which is by threading and screwing into the spottingacylindric piece of iron or other metal with a square oritice of propersize to receive the Scythe-shank.

What I claim as my own invention, and not previously known, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is My constructing the nib or thole ironsand woods so as by the extension of the iron beyoud the wood witha screwand nut to regulate and fasten the nibs or tholes in any situationdesirable on the snead, and my method of bushing, staying, and securingthe spotting, in all as set forth in this speciiication and drawings.

DEXTER PIERCE.

Witnesses:

EDWIN H. RANKIN, J ONATHAN HAETWELL.

